Antibiotic resistance could be "next pandemic," CDC says.
Dearth in innovation for key drugs. "There is clearly something wrong with pharmaceutical innovation. Antibiotic-resistant infections sicken more than two million Americans every year and kill at least 23,000. The World Health Organization has warned that a 'post-antibiotic era' may be upon us, when 'common infections and minor injuries can kill.' Even the world’s tycoons consider the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria one of the crucial global risks of our times, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum. Yet the enthusiasm of the pharmaceutical industry for developing drugs to combat such a potential disaster might be best characterized as a big collective 'meh.'" Eduardo Porter in The New York Times.
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